You may have already received an email from the ASPCA Advocacy Center about the pending Farm Bill in Congress if you have signed up for their alerts.But it is such an important issue, we wanted to make sure all of our local animal advocates know about it and forward this request on to their friends.
Last year, I adopted Buster. When he came home with me most of his coat had been clipped very short. But since then, his coat has grown back and it is gorgeous but very long. I am thinking in this summer heat, maybe I should get him clipped right down very short again. Is that a good idea?
My new adopted pal, Bubba, a black lab mix, is about nine months old now and he is perfect in every way except one. He is an ingrate! No, really. I keep buying him toys and he keeps destroying them – all of them. It is so frustrating! I would really like to be able to play with him all the time, fetch, or tug of war, or whatever.
It is astounding to us how many people don’t understand that you can’t leave a dog in a car in the summer, even on a not so blindingly hot day, for even a few minutes without a risk of seriously injuring or killing your dog. Numerous studies have shown that the temperature inside a parked car, even in the shade, even with the windows cracked, can easily rise 20 degrees or more in just ten minutes.
The 4th of July is coming and all the festivities are a lot of fun for humans – but not so much for our pets. In fact, quite the opposite. Fireworks are a strange, unexplainable and sometimes terrifying noise, and as many pet owners know, they can cause a great deal of stress for some animals.
My dog, who has been with me since he was a puppy, is now 13. I guess that makes him about 91 in human years. He has always been well behaved and totally friendly, but suddenly he has started to bark for no apparent reason and sometimes when I am petting him or brushing him he just wanders off as though he doesn’t enjoy that attention any more. It makes me really sad to think that he may have some sort of dementia
My dog, Tucker, loves to go for walks in the woods with me and we do that all the time. But here’s the problem. He also loves to roll around on the ground and much of the ground in my woods is covered by poison ivy. Is he in any danger of getting a rash from poison ivy? And, I was told that I could get it from touching his fur after he has rolled.
We had an interesting conversation yesterday with another animal lover who told us about her middle aged cat, Annabelle, who “suddenly last summer” stopped using her litter box. The box was and always had been located in their finished basement in the exact same location and there had been no sudden changes in the household.
I read all the time about the dangers of summer heat for dogs, but what about cats? My buddy, Otis, loves to be outside with me on warm summer days. But, what if it is really really hot? Is there any danger? What should I do to prevent that?
Did you know that New York State is the only state in the nation that forbids local municipalities, towns and counties from regulating the pet breeding and pet sales industry more stringently than state law?
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